short-video-maker
A free open-source project designed to turn youtube-videos into viral short videos. Highlight detection, subtitles, translation, voiceover, all in one for your content: no pre-clip credits or any watermarks. Designed for creators who want an alternative to short-video SaaS tools like OpusClip or Vidyo.ai for free.
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Details
- External ID
- 1406229181
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- short-video-maker
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.35747978436657685
- Tags
- ai-video, ai-video-editing, ai-video-generation-api, money-printer, short-video, short-video-automation, short-video-generator, short-video-maker, short-video-sdk, shorts-generator
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ai video generation and editing
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source video repurposing tool for short-form creators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Chaining together open-source utilities like yt-dlp, Whisper for transcription, an LLM for highlight selection, and FFmpeg for clipping and subtitles is a standard pipeline automation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 494 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #207 of 495 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- ViralClip AI · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- ViralWiz · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- short-video-generator · github · 2026-10-03 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Clip — Turn Long Videos Into Short Clips · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- OptimaClip · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Repurpose AI 3.0 · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ClipForge · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Videoify · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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